Voices From The Land

10.16.08: This page is under construction. Please come back soon for more links to each of these documents!

• News Release: OSM APPROVES BLACK MESA PROJECT FINAL EIS Read further….

• Be Conquered or Never – Dineh Resistance in Order FOR GLOBAL SURVIVAL! The Burnham Struggle of 1980 By Bahe Y. Katenay – 12/19/06

• Leonard Benally Speaks at the United Nations – 08/04/06

• An Article on Senate Bill 1003, the Relocation Legislation by Bahe Y. Katenay of Big Mountain

• Traditional Hopi, Keeper of the Sacred Stone Tablets: “Sovereignty Dishonored and Global Instability Evolving” 03.28.06

• My name is Katherine Smith, a citizen of the Navajo Nation and also a resident of land known as the Hopi Partitioned Lands (HPL) since 1977–because of Public Law 93-531. According to our oral historical traditions, from the beginning of the Fifth World, the Holy People- placed us “the Dineh” with Natural Laws-here within the six sacred Mountains, between the Male and Female Rivers….” Statement by Katherine A. Smith, Elderly resident & Matriarch of Big Mountain, Arizona. ”
  

• Struggles Continue Despite Black Mesa Mine Shut Down By Bahe Y. Katenay 10.26.05

• Statement from a Dineh man from The Mountain 07.22.05

• Families on Big Mountain receive notices to sign. A Dineh man living on Big Mountain and who wishes to remain anonymous, recieved legal notice from the relocation office that pertains to this recent bill (S. 1003, The Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 Amendments, introduced by Senator John McCain.) The notice states that he needs to come into the office by Oct. 31, 2005 to read some papers and sign up for some relocation benefits and that if he does not, he will be put onto a “no exception” list. He said that other families have been given the same notice.

• REPORT AND UPDATE: THE BIG MOUNTAIN RESISTANCE Summer 2005
  The “Forum on Black Mesa: Corporate Globalization & Indigenous Cultural Survival” was held on July 10, 2005 in Flagstaff, Arizona. Summary of excerpts & translation compiled by Bahe Katenay of Big Mountain. 08/01/05

• FORUM on BLACK MESA: “Corporate Globalization’s Impact on Indigenous Cultural Survival” –excerpts & translation compiled by o. johnson 8/1/05. Transcripts in English and Navajo Font. (required for this document)

• In loving memory Kee Watchman 1945 – 2005

• In loving memory Kii Shey 1920 – 2005

• Statement by grassroots Dine’ residents and the their supporters “This is a critical time. Residents of Black Mesa who reside near the mine have spent the last week picketing the Black Mesa Mine ….” 04.18.05

• Urgently requesting outside support to picket Black Mesa Mine and Mojave Generating Station “My name is Leo C. Begay. I’m a resident of Black Mesa and I live near Peabody Coal Mine.   I’m protesting against the mining company.   We’ve been blocking Black Mesa mine for about a week now….We need more support.” 04.18.05

• Oral report to the Navajo Nation Council by the residents of Peabody Coal Co. lease area By Black Mesa Residents 04.18.05

• The proposal to bring water from Leupp through our community to the Peabody coal mine is not acceptable...by Black Mesa residents 04.18.05

• Statement by Glenna Begay, 02.01.05

• Update From W. Big Mountain, the Lane family 01.14.05

• “Meaning” of Original Dineh Resistance of 1977 Bahe Y. Katenay, UAP September 2004

• Statement by Bahe Y. Katenay 10.04

• Elsie & Mae Sheii, Big Mountain Elders 2.24.04

• Press Release – For Immediate Release ‘The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute’: Hopi Tribe Threatens to Demolish Living and Historic Navajo Homesite 05.12.04

• We are a few because we stand for the Right of the Core of Indigenous Beliefs. At Thin Rock Mesa in west central Big Mountain, the late Roberta Blackgoat’s homesite still sits with the life and all the glory of the belief systems associated to the Sacred Mountain Soil Bundle of the Dineh.This is true sovereignty….

• The Spring Survival Gathering Reportback

• Dineh still determined to resist relocation and coal mining

• “Dineh Gathering Gives Navajo Leader More Then An Ear Full” The Sovereign Dineh communities of Red Willow and Cactus Valley 11.03

• Letter Of Concern: Dineh (Navajo) Sponsored Gathering Fear Law Enforcement Intervention Press Release: Big Mountain Spring Survival Gathering 2004
• Livestock Impoundments and harrassment on Big Mountain, AZ
• Statement from a Dineh organizer regarding the undisclosed location & purpose of a Spring Survival Gathering on Big Mountain, Black Mesa, AZ.
• Statemate by Pauline Whitesinger 04.29.03
• Statement from Kee Watchman for the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Working Group on Indigenous Populations 20th Session 22-26 July 2002
• Big Mountain Alert 07.18.02
• Closure to the Hiroshima Peace Flame Walk 2002: Traditional Dineh and Hopis Come Together for Peace On Earth
• Is Anyone Listening? Roberta Blackgoat in an undated memo
• Leonard Peltier In support of Big Mountain
• Statement from Danny Blackgoat 06.12.02
• Statements From Dine’ Elders On Black Mesa, 03/02
• In Loving Memory of Roberta Blackgoat 1917 -2002
  Roberta Blackgoat: Matriarch of Big Mountain & the struggle against relocation
  
• A Changed World and A Divided Family for A Relocatee
  A relocation story with a brief history of Hopi resistance

• Reports On the Arrests and Court Hearings of Big Mountain Residents & the Bulldozing of Anna Mae Sundance :

  • Emergency Call For Funding A Big Mountain Residents Court Case
  • Big Mountain residents pepper sprayed and arrested
  • Arrick Crittenden given a guiltily verdict; an appeal of the case is in order
  • Camp Ana Mae, the well-known site of Sun Dances , home to Louise Benally and her children at the foot of Big Mountain, Arizona has been bulldozed by Hopi Tribal authorities on August 17, 2001. Two arrested. For more information: Camp Anna Mae Sundance
  • A pre-trial hearing for Arrick Crittendon who was arrested at his homesite on Big Mountain and charged with criminal trespassing is scheduled for February 19th.
  • Big Mountain case circles around definitions
  • Dismissal Against Navajo Women
  • Dineh leaders react to dismissal of ‘Big Mountain 5’ case
  • Comments in response to AZ Daily Sun’s article “Hopi trespass charges dismissed ”
    Trial Of Five (letter to Daniel B. Wood,Christian Science Monitor)
  • Navajo resisters, Hopi officials to file more court motions
  • More on the arrests of Dine during the Sundance Ceremony
  • A Hopi Tribal Ordinance has been issued stating that anybody on the Hopi Partitioned Lands must have a permit before cutting any wood. If one is found without a permit, their axes, chainsaws, and even their vehicle can be confiscated. There may be fines as well.
  • The Bulldozing of Anna Mae Sundance
  • 2001 Sundance Reports
    Anna Mae Sundance Arbor & Tree destruction 2001

• More Voices from the Land:
• Signatures from Germany handed to Gale Norton
• Bahe and Hopi Elder’s statement in May 2002
• Statement from Danny Blackgoat June 12, 2002
• Text of certified letter that Rena Babbit Lane received (regarding Hopi Tribal Grazing Ordinance #43)
• Roberta Blackgoat’s Visit To Sweden
• Relocation/Livestock Impoundment Information Alert
• Traditional Indigenous Delegation Speaks Out at the Lehman Brothers Shareholders Meeting
• A delegation of 12 indigenous leaders from the traditional Dineh, traditional Hopi and traditional Lakota nations visits Lehman Brothers in New York City
• Anonymous Hopi Traditional
• May 30th, 2001
• Glenna 2001
• John Benally
• Leonard Bennally
  Sundance –Letter to Editor
• Columbus Day, War and Big Mountain
• Bahe Update February 2001
• Leonard Bennally (2001)
• Mobilization Lehmen Bros 04.01 Action Reports –
• Pauline Whitesinger 2001
• Hopi Solidarity From a Dine Perspective 2001
• Kee Watchman Working Group on Indigenous Populations 19th Session, 23 to 27 July 2001
• Kee Watchman Speaking at the UN 2001
• Roberta Blackgoat (2000) & (2001)
• Kee Shay 1991 has been”excluded” from his home by administrative court.
• View from the Hogan Archive
• Voices from a a troubled land Archive (1991)
  • BMIS Winter 2001 Report/ Statement
    “Fear and Loathing On Black Mesa” by Suzanne Marcus Fletcher
  • 2000:
  • Thanksgiving Food & Supply Run
  • Fall Update
  • Voices Cactus Valley, Red Willow & Upper Big Mtn plateau
  • 2000 Winter Update